Guidelines for Contributors
Instructions to Authors
Scope. The Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences (JIOHS) serves as an international forum for the publication of the latest developments in all areas of photonics in biology and medicine. JIOHS will consider for publication original papers in all disciplines of photonics in biology and medicine, including but not limited to: photonic therapeutics and diagnostics, optical clinical technologies and systems, tissue optics, lasertissue interaction and tissue engineering, biomedical spectroscopy, advanced microscopy and imaging, nanobiophotonics and optical molecular imaging, multimodal and hybrid biomedical imaging, micro/nanofabrication, medical microsystems, optical coherence tomography and photodynamic therapy.
Submission. Process. It is strongly recommended that new manuscripts to be submitted electronically. If electronic submission is not possible, the author can submit manuscript by airmail. In the latter case, 3 copies of the manuscript should be sent to the Managing Editor.
Electronic Submissions. Manuscripts must be submitted online via Editorial Manager (EM), a fully web-based submission, peerreview, and tracking system, at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiohs/
If you are submitting via this new system for the first time, you will first be required to register. From the account you create, you will be able to monitor your submission and make subsequent submissions.
Hard Copy Submissions. Hard copy submissions or submissions via e-mail to the managing editors are not encouraged and will only be accepted when the online submission system is disrupted. For hard copy submissions, three copies together with CD-ROM (PC or Mac) or ZIP disk (PC or Mac) should be sent by mail to: Managing Editor, Qingming Luo, Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics, Room G305, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China, E-mail: jiohs@mail.hust.edu.cn
Typing Instructions. The text may be prepared using any of the following word processing software: Latex2e, Latex2.09, RevTeX, AmsTeX, Word for Windows.
Any manuscript, which does not conform to the instructions, may be returned to authors for revision before publication.
The manuscript, including the abstract, references, and captions, should be neatly typed in English, doubled-spaced with a 12-point font, on one side of an A4 sized paper (21.6¡Á28 cm or 8.5¡Á11 in). Pages should be numbered in succession, the title page being page 1. The title page should include only: (i) the article title; (ii) the authors' names and their affiliations; (iii) the corresponding author's email address; (iv) the running title, not exceeding 45 letters and spaces.
Abstract and Keywords. The abstract should be self-contained (contains no footnotes) and should not exceed 250 words. Select about three to five keywords that do not duplicate words in the title. Composite words can be selected and will be counted as one keyword. Do not abbreviate keywords.
SI (Standard International) units must be used in the text, tables, and figures of all manuscripts submitted to the Journal.
Equations. Displayed equations should be numbered consecutively, with the equation number flushed (i.e., right-justified) and enclosed in parentheses. Equations should be referred in the text as Eq. (x), where x is the equation number. In multiple-line equations, the number should be given on the last line. Please ensure that the equations are numbered correctly, without repetition, and that no important equations are omitted from the numbering scheme. Mathematical operation signs indicating continuity of the expression should be placed at the left hand of the second and succeeding lines. Use ¡Á rather than a centered dot, except for scalar products of vectors. The solidus (/) should be used instead of built-up fractions in running text. Use "exp" for complicated exponents.
Notation must be clear, legible and consistent with standard usage. Superscripts are usually set directly over subscripts.
Tables should be typed neatly, each on a separate sheet, with title above and any notes below. Explain all abbreviations. Tables should be numbered in the order of their appearance by Roman numerals. The units of measure must be indicated clearly in the column headings of the table. If the unit of measure is the same for all data in a table, it may be given in the table title or in a footnote to be printed directly below the table.
Illustrations. Authors must submit high quality (publication quality) illustrations. Upon acceptance of their papers, authors are strongly encouraged to send electronic graphics files to the Publisher.
Illustrations must be clear and unfolded, and their print quality must be even and dark enough for reproduction. It is usually sufficient that the figures be generated using modern graphic software, then laser-printed. Black and white photographs are strongly preferred and must be sharp. Do not mount photos but submit these on separate sheets (identified on the back with the author's name and with the top plainly marked).
Please avoid mounting figures using adhesive tapes. If a tape is absolutely necessary, then ensure that it does not cover any typeset lettering, especially the annotations and other text near the figures.
The Requirements
- 600 dpi for line drawings (black and white).
- 300 dpi for halftones (gray scale). Do not convert from color images as they reproduce very poorly.
- 300 dpi for color images. Must be in CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) for color separation. RGB (Red, Green and Blue) is unacceptable for color separation work.
Color Illustrations/Figures. All illustrations, by default, will be published in black and white on print copies. Contributors have to pay the cost of US$40 for each color illustration/figure. Please indicate illustrations/figures that are designated for color print (on print copies) during the submission of the accepted manuscript.
Captions should be set below figure, and sequentially numbered using Arabic numerals.
If a figure has been published previously, acknowledge its source and submit written permission signed by author and publisher concerned. The source must be included in the reference list. If permission fee is required, it must be paid for by the author. The authors are fully responsible as the publisher has no way of finding out just by checking the manuscript.
Line drawings. Please submit high-quality glossy prints. The height and thickness of letters in illustrations must be legible when the figures are reduced (if necessary).
All photos, graphs, illustrations and diagrams are referred to as "figures" and the abbreviation "Fig." (or "Figs.") is used in the text. (Where the word "Figure" begins a sentence, it should be spelt in full.)
Submission of Electronic Graphics Files
Graphics must be submitted as PostScript, EPS (using Arial, Helvetica or Times Roman fonts), or TIFF, JPG, GIF and BMP files. If the files are large, please compress them using zip, tar or gzip. Color illustrations must be CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) in Tif format. RGB is not accepted for color processing and reproduction. Do not use color if an illustration is to be reproduced in black and white, as clarity and definitions will be lost in the conversion of colors into gray tones. Line art/graphics exported from a drawing program should be saved in EPS format. Use patterns instead of colors to fill spreadsheet graphics because shading reproduces poorly in black and white.
References. A complete list of references numbered consecutively in order of first appearance and indicated by superscript numerals in the text, should be provided. Reference should be made to the full list of authors rather than the first author followed by et al. Within tables, references should be designated by lower case Roman letter superscripts and given at the end of the table.
Examples
normal book (authors)
E. S. Koay, N. Walmsley, A Primer of Chemical Pathology, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (1996).
chapter in a book (editors)
N. B. Slepecky, "Structure of the mammalian cochlea", Chap. 2 in The Cochlea, P. Dallos, A. N. Popper, R. R. Fay, Eds., pp. 45-129, Springer-Verlag, New York (1996).
edition
A. S. M. Lim, I. J. Constable, A Colour Atlas of Ophthalmology, 4th Edition, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (2001).
journal article
A. Hildersheim, P. H. Levine, "Etiology of nasopharyngeal carconoma: A review", Epidemiol. Rev. 15, 466-485 (1996).
electronic resources
W. S. Rasband, ImageJ, U. S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/ (1997-2006).
to be published
X. Xu, J. A. Spencer, K. K. Lin, E. I. Kudryavtseva, B. Andersen, "Characterization of mice expressing a dominant negative Clim in epithelial tissues", to be published.
Proofs. Proofs will be sent to the author (first named author if no corresponding author is identified of multi-authored papers). Corrections should be restricted to typesetting errors. No new material may be inserted in the text at the time of proof reading. Any queries should be answered in full.
Archiving of articles in PubMed Central
If your research is funded by NIH, you can submit the final accepted version of your manuscript (author version) to Pubmed Central. You can submit your manuscript immediately after the acceptance of the paper. If you prefer to archive the final published version, please note that there is a 12-month embargo unless the paper is published as a fully open access article. World Scientific can upload the final published version of the article on behalf of the authors. If you require this service, please let the production editor know and provide the following information: the name and contact email of the grantee and the NIH grant number.
Detailed instructions for preparation of manuscripts are available in: Latex-2e (readme / Download)
